His collaboration with Lego took over 3,000 hours to realize and required the creation of many custom interfaces because, not surprisingly, out of the box the droids weren’t pre-programmed or engineered to play cellos and other instruments.

All in all the 95 droids—which included 46 R2-D2s, 26 mouse droids, and 23 gonk droids—performed John Williams’ iconic Star Wars Main Title theme on 10 xylophones, 10 violins, four cellos, eight electronic keyboards, six electric drums, two gongs, two sets of chimes, two floor drums, and a pair of cymbals.

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The results probably aren’t going to end up played under the opening credits of The Rise of Skywalker in a few months, but for a bunch of plastic toy robots, the performance easily outshines the last piano recital you were forced to attend.

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